by Blog Staff | Nov 26, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Over the last two months, we’ve been closely monitoring — and proactively protecting from — the malicious campaigns launched by cybercriminals who are no strangers to the concept of social engineering topic rotation. Their purpose is to extend a campaign’s life cycle, or to generally increase a botnet’s infected population by spamming out tens of thousands of fake emails, exposing users to malicious software. The most recent campaign launched by the same cybercriminal(s), is once again impersonating T-Mobile U.K in an attempt to trick mobile users into thinking that they’ve received a legitimate MMS Gallery notification. In reality though, once the attachment is executed, the victim’s PC will automatically join the botnet operated by the cybercriminal(s) behind the campaign, ultimately undermining the confidentiality and integrity of the host.
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by Grayson Milbourne | Nov 25, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
In this edition of the Webroot ThreatVlog, Grayson Milbourne talks about ways to keep your mobile device secure from the physical aspect. As our lives become more and more mobile focused, with an increasing amount of private information being stored on tablets and phones, it is always smart to remain vigilant to possible security breaches direct into the phone.
http://youtu.be/v2v-TUOxaQ0
by Blog Staff | Nov 25, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
HSBC customers, watch what you execute on your PCs. A circulating malicious spam campaign attempts to socially engineer you into thinking that you’ve received a legitimate ‘payment e-Advice’. In reality, once you execute the attachment, your PC automatically joins the botnet operated by the cybercriminal(s) behind the campaign.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 22, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
We’ve just intercepted a currently circulating malicious spam campaign impersonating WhatsApp — yet again — in an attempt to trick its users into thinking that they’ve received a voice mail. Once socially engineered users execute the malicious attachment found in the fake emails, their PCs automatically join the botnet operated by the cybercriminal(s) behind the campaign.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 21, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
In need of a good reason to immediately improve the strength of your Origin password, in case you don’t want to lose access to your inventory of games, as well as your gaming reputation? We’re about to give you a pretty good one. A newly released proxy-supporting Origin brute-forcing tool is not just efficiency verifying an end user’s understanding of basic security practices, but also, has built-in option for parsing an affected user’s inventory of games, as well as related gaming information. Why would a cybercriminal want to gain access to someone’s gaming account in the first place, besides the most logical reason of gaining access to their gaming inventory? Simple. To set up the foundations for a successful business model relying on standardized E-shops for selling access to compromised gaming/accounting data.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 20, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Want to file for mileage reimbursement through a STD-261 form? You may want to skip the tens of thousands of malicious emails currently in circulation, attempting to trick users into executing the malicious attachment. Once downloaded, your PC automatically joins the botnet operated by the cybercriminal(s) behind the campaign, undermining the confidentiality and integrity of the host.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 19, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Cybercriminals are currently mass mailing tens of thousands of malicious emails, supposedly including a photo attachment that’s been “Sent from an iPhone”. The social engineering driven spam campaign is, however, the latest attempt by a cybercriminal/group of cybercriminals that we’ve been monitor for a while, to attempt to trick gullible users into unknowingly joining the botnet operated by the malicious actor(s) behind the campaign.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 15, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Telephony Denial of Service Attacks (TDoS) continue representing a growing market segment within the Russian/Eastern European underground market, with more vendors populating it with propositions for products and services aiming to disrupt the phone communications of prospective victims. From purely malicious in-house infrastructure — dozens of USB hubs with 3G USB modems using fraudulently obtained, non-attributable SIM cards — abuse of legitimate infrastructure, like Skype, ICQ, a mobile carrier’s legitimate service functionality, or compromised accounts of SIP account owners, the market continues growing to the point where even Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) providers start ‘vertically integrating’.
A new, commercially available multi-threaded SIP-based TDoS tool released by what appears to be an experienced TDoS vendor that’s also offering managed TDoS services, is prone to empower not just lone attackers, but also, potential new vendors who’d use the tool as a primarily vehicle for the the future growth of their business model. Let’s profile the tool, discuss its features, as well as what might have prompted the vendor of managed TDoS services to start selling copies of it, instead of exclusively using it in-house.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 13, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Sharing is caring. In this post, I’ll put the spotlight on a currently circulating, massive — thousands of sites affected — malicious iframe campaign, that attempts to drop malicious software on the hosts of unaware Web site visitors through a cocktail of client-side exploits. The campaign, featuring a variety of evasive tactics making it harder to analyze, continues to efficiently pop up on thousands of legitimate Web sites. Ultimately hijacking the legitimate traffic hitting them and successfully undermining the confidentiality and integrity of the affected users’ hosts.
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by Blog Staff | Nov 12, 2013 | Industry Intel, Threat Lab
Our sensors just picked up an interesting Web site infection that’s primarily targeting Brazilian users. It appears that the Web site of the Brazilian Jaqueira prefecture has been compromised, and is exposing users to a localized (to Portuguese) Web page enticing them into installing a malicious version of Adobe’s Flash player. Not surprisingly, we’ve also managed to identify approximately 63 more Brazilian Web sites that are victims to the same infection.
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